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  1. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    It does not say "at that moment," those are your words. Something can be not found either because it was lost (or the seeker is not able to find it) or because it is just not there to be found, and the latter is how it is to be understood. Right, because the latter is not Biblical doctrine...
  2. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    I believe I've been very clear in saying the first birth is physical... ...and the first death is physical also. You're... not physically dead... If you believe in Christ and have repented of your sin, then you have experienced the first resurrection. Ephesians 2:4-10 and 1 Peter 1:3-5 are...
  3. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    Ah, so we force His will; His will is not free. I... see... No, Timtofly, we disagree. God changes our nature; we are first dead in our sin and slaves to unrighteousness. He gives us new birth in the Spirit, and then we cannot do any other than to change our own free will to be in alignment...
  4. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    Yes. He was already a believer, when he died (the first time), so, necessarily, he had been born again of the Spirit. LOL! I don't even know what your "logic" is in asking that question. <chuckes> The spiritual resurrection is not before either. We are all born (of our mother) spiritually...
  5. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    LOL! It is what it is. One is born again of the Spirit, and raised (resurrected) from death in sin to life in Christ. Grace and peace to you.
  6. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    Yes, you have... :) He had already experienced the first resurrection (which is not physical, not from physical death). We did, yes. :) Nobody has said Lazarus's raising was not a resurrection. But, he had already experienced the first resurrection ~ having been born again of the Spirit...
  7. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    Well, yes, but certainly not in the sense that "God couldn't find any of the others," but rather that only the ones whose names were/are in the Book are in the Book. The text reads, verbatim, "if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."...
  8. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    LOL! Don't think any of us disagrees with this; I don't. But all will be granted this resurrection, which is actually the second. The first, specific only to God's elect, has already taken place prior to the final Judgment. These are the ones who, as Paul puts it in Ephesians 2, "even when...
  9. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    And both in error. No man physically dies twice; Hebrews 9:27 is very clear that "it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment." And God Himself is the "consuming fire"... Deuteronomy 4:24 and Hebrews 12:29 are clear on that. The lake of fire of Revelation 19 and 20 is...
  10. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    "To cease to exist" is not the sense in which 'destroyed' is used in God's Word. Yes, 'destroy(ed)' can mean "to put an end to the existence of (something)." But it can also mean ~ and does in the particular cases you are referring to in God's Word ~ "to bring (someone) to ruin emotionally...
  11. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    Of course not. I've been very clear about that over and over again here. That you would postulate that my answer to this simple question could be yes... or that you would even ask it... is astounding. Grace and peace to you.
  12. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    Agreed, but we disagree on what this perishing/consuming, the second death, is. It is far, far worse than you understand it to be. Disagree. God never says anything about anything ceasing to exist. Having been resurrected to eternal judgment (John 5:29), Jesus sends the wicked away, and they...
  13. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    No, and He doesn't promise ~ perish the thought ~ to annihilate them, either. Agreed, but eternal punishment (the second death) is a far different thing than temporal death (the first death). They do cease to be here, but they do not cease to be. God originally created all of His creation...
  14. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    In a certain sense, but this existence is not life. As Jesus says in John 5:28-29, "an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment." It's what...
  15. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    No, they get eternal death, which, Hobie, is somewhat analogous to what we know in this life as life imprisonment ~ away from the truly living; they are not among those who have eternal life. The second death, like eternal life, is a state of being. From the New Heaven and New Earth, yes, and...
  16. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    Yes, there will be no more sin and no more sinners in the New Heaven and New Earth. Sure, absolutely. The wicked will be... elsewhere, having been sent away by Jesus, and in that place, they will be in anguish day and night forever. Grace and peace to you.
  17. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    Ah, so you do buy into annihilation... To answer your question, no, but you're applying life and death in the eternal realm in the same manner/sense as in the temporal realm, and such cannot Biblically be done. The wicked exist in eternity, but not in the presence of the One Who is life ~...
  18. PinSeeker

    They will reign with Him a thousand years and making an unknown Greek out of the English New Testament

    Their time on earth will end, yes. They will not cease to exist, though... neither the ones who enter into the New Heaven and New Earth and will no longer sin (us) nor the ones who remain sinners and depart to judgment, this place of "outer darkness," where there will be "weeping and gnashing...
  19. PinSeeker

    25 reasons why you should abandon Premillennialism

    Great! Well... I mean, clarify if and where you think necessary. Grace and peace to you.
  20. PinSeeker

    25 reasons why you should abandon Premillennialism

    WPM, I at least partly agree with Keraz here. You're right, it will certainly be climactic, but not fiery in the way you are seeing it. Jesus is the "fire." Our God is a consuming fire ~ and the "burning" will be His judgment, in that it will purify, or cleanse the earth once and for all ~...